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A Meditation on Keeping Great Finds to Oneselfnew
Any object is marred by seeing. To reveal it means to erase it. Whatever people find there will not be what it was that inspired their coming.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
05-19-2009 |
Art
Tags: commentary, visual art
Landscapes, Urban and Suburban, on the Brink of Catastrophenew
An ecology of tedium might threaten us here, given the cascade of exhibitions being devoted to landscape. But there are a sufficient number of individual artists in two local shows who succeed in making the subject their own, while escaping the stereotypes of the convention.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
04-07-2009 |
Art
A Conversation of Surprises at New Haven Gallerynew
Artists reinvent time. There is, of course, the new before and after of the work itself. The world is altered by each new making. But the best art can also render time as if it were powerless.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
02-17-2009 |
Art
Museum of the Lostnew
Misplaced, stolen and obliterated works need curating too.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
02-12-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
